She-Hulk #5 Review

Title:	She-Hulk
Contributors:	Charles Soule Ron Wimberly
Publisher:	Marvel
Issue #:	5
Year:	2014
Pages:	32 Pages
Age Rating:	13+ (Violence)
Story Grade:	A
Art Grade:	C

In Issue #5; She-Hulk, respect the hyphen, and a few of her friends start investing why she is being sued for something she has no memory of. And while Soule remains on board as the writer we are treated to a new artist, Ron Wimberly. The change in artist is a welcome relief for me, as the ratios in the facial proportions issues Javier had are now resolved, but new issues arise for me as a Wimberly takes the helm. But for the most part, Jennifer now looks like Jennifer regardless of the panel she is drawn in.

Soule really picks up the storytelling process here confirming his commitment to quality a character, quality story and engaging the fans in the material.

The book leaves the reader with not one, not two but three cliffhangers one of which being a literal cliffhanger. What happened with HellCat? What happened with Jennifer's paralegal? And finally what is going to happen with Shocker?

The artwork of Ron Wimberly is nice. It is in the same pop-art styling as Javier, but with a little more consistency with the anatomy. It bugs me much less, and this allows me to enjoy the book more.

But there is something to be said about the coloring work. The colors are not right In one panel the New York sky is actually colored pink. Yup, pink. Not blue, hazy, or other pollutant filtered shade of a normal sky color. It is pink. I am sure it is part of the pop-art style being used in the series, but I am not really a fan of it... it feels too 80s.

There is one particular panel that has this unusually elongated arm in the scene. I understand the cool factor of using such exaggerated angles, but in this case, the arm simply looks like the arm of Mr. Fantastic and not the arm of Tigra.

One of the main issues with the art is that is doesn't draw the reader into the story. Rather it's distracting, pulling me out of the story to make sure I am interpreting the art correctly and this slows the pace of the story as a whole down.

All in all I grade this book a solid B. The story from Soule is stellar, but Wimberly's artwork still really needs a non-80s overhaul and less surrealism in the use of angles.

Until next time... remember the first rule of the Blue File, is you don't talk about the Blue File.